Spent 4 days in Singapore from 1/2 - 5/2 and because the public transport is so darn good in Singapore I was really keen to get a dayrider ticket and just whizz around on that, getting off at whichever stop and exploring that way. Some of the tube stations which were of interest was 'Little India', 'Chinatown' and 'Raffles Place' just to name a few. The Singapore version of 'Oyster Card' is an 'EZ Link card'. On our first full day we had a look and wander through...

I started the advanced open water course on the 29th January. It's only a 2 day course and and if you do the course with SSI you dont have to do any homework or reading or tests, my kind of course!  There were 2 groups doing the advanced course at the same time so the first morning we all joined together. We were given an underwater compass (the same as a normal compass but filled with oil to prevent pressure from breaking it, and it's got a wrist strap too) a...

After my 4 days of diving, I had 3 days of chilling out before we planned to leave for Krabi. The day after our open water course finished me, Nath, Ole and Julien took a taxi-boat over to a small neighbouring island called Pulau Nang Yuan. We got there about 11ish after having brekkie at Big Blue 1 and as soon as we got there we starting walking uphil towards a 'view point' that our instructer, Iain, told us about. There was a fair few steps so it was pretty tir...

We chose to dive with Big Blue Diving because they had great views on tripadviser. And we also chose to learn to dive in Thailand because its the cheapest place in the world to learn to dive. From the word go, I had a great impression of Big Blue. Although I was half asleep from being part jet-lagged and having a crappy night sleep on an overnight train - we met our instructer, he gave us a free cup of iced juice and showed us to our room and I had a nap straigh...

So we'd booked an all-in-one ticket at Bangkok train station to Koh Tao - an overnight train to Chumphon, a bus from Chumphon bus station to the ferry port and then a ferry from Chumphon to Koh Tao, this cost us 1060baht each = £22. When we were waiting at the station for our train, there were two people who appeared to have lost their friend. They were running round pretty frantically plus they got the man at the info desk to do a voice-over asking for a girl ...